Improvement in filling for fire-proof safes



COMPOSITIONS, COATING OR PLASTIC SUBSTITUTED FOR MlSSlNQ COPY.

JOHN FABREL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FILLING FOR FIRE-PROOF SAFES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 107,022, dated September 6, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN FABREL, of the State, city, and county of New York, have invented a new Composition of Matter for the Filling of Safes, to render them fire-proof; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,.clear,and .exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to the filling usual for rendering safes fire-proof, and the object the walls of the safe in the usual manner and allowed to set. The filling thus prepared and used does not, like gypsum,.corrode iron nor give off dampness, while the tendency of the cement to swell with the lapse of time counteracts the corresponding liability of the plaster to shrink, producing a filling that is capable of maintaining great uniformity in fire-proof capacity, dryness, and bulk.

In the use of this compound I shall not confine myself to the proportions above named in all cases, but shall vary them as circumstances and experience may determine.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved fire-proof safe-filling specified, prepared and used substantially as described.

EABLE H. SMITH, R. I. HENRY, Jr.

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